Govert Flinck (1615-1660) is attributed with painting this darkly-colored copy of an earlier artwork by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). Both the original and the copy...
Balthild, a future wife and mother of kings, emerged from obscure origins in the early 7th century. Also called Balthilde, Bathild and Baldhild, she...
In the early 8th century, a decorated warrior and administrative official named Sergios came to be appointed as the Byzantine governor of Constantinople’s imperial...
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"ust as no human body is perfect, so no self is perfect."
From Soren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death (chapter C, section...
Govert Flinck (1615-1660) is attributed with painting this darkly-colored copy of an earlier artwork by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). Both the original and the copy...
(Portrait of Oda Nobunaga by Italian Giovanni Nicolao, probably commissioned by Oda himself. The portrait was introduced as authentic in Historia, History Channel, ...
Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113)
"Nothing is so short and fleeting as the longest of human lives."
The Letters of Pliny the Younger (3.7), translated...
